Bailey v. Menzie’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2007
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 172 Ind. App. 81 - Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. v. Central Beverage Co. · 135 Ind. App. 167 - MALONE, ADMR. ETC. v. Conner · Seymour National Bank v. State · Seymour National Bank v. State · Matter of Adoption of Thomas
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The best evidence of legislative intent is the statute itself....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Sec. 2. (a) A child’s maternal grandparent may seek visitation rights if: (1) the child’s mother is deceased; or (2) the marriage of the child’s parents has been dissolved in Indiana. (b) a child's paternal grandparent may seek visitation rights if: (1) the child’s father is deceased; or (2) the marriage of the child’s parents has been dissolved in Indiana. (c) If the marriage of the child’s parents has been dissolved in another state, the child’s maternal or paternal grandparent may seek visitation rights if: (1) the custody decree rendered in the action for dissolution of marriage does not bind the grandparent under IC 31-1-11.6-12; and (2) an Indiana court would have jurisdiction under IC 31-1-11.6-3 or IC 31-1-11.6-14 to grant visitation rights to the grandparent in a modification decree. (d) Visitation rights provided for in subsection (a), (b), or (c) survive the adoption of the child by a stepparent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[to the extent that the amendment merely represents the opinion of the amending legislature as to how the statute should be construed, it is not controlling. Construction of doubtful statutes is a judicial function which the courts alone must perform.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.